About GeneratePress
GeneratePress is a free WordPress theme developed by Tom Usborne. He originally created it to use as a base for developing themes for his web design clients, but after releasing it for free the theme began to quickly grow in popularity. Tom began developing premium plugins to extend the theme's features, while maintaining its original purpose as a lightweight base theme for developers.
GeneratePress is free to download, but paid upgrades are required for more features and support.
To find the best theme for your site, you can check out our list of the best and most popular WordPress themes .
GeneratePress Features
GeneratePress is designed to be a flexible base theme, so it is light on features.
Fast and light
GeneratePress is designed to be italy phone number efficiently coded and lightweight.
The default free theme is pretty basic, but you can extend it and add more features using a number of plugins. This prevents the theme from becoming bloated with tons of features you'll never use.
Responsive and browser compatible
GeneratePress is mobile responsive, so it looks good and is easy to use even on small screens. It is also designed to work on all major browsers, including Internet Explorer 8.
Customizable design
After installing the theme, you can access all the customization options by navigating to Appearance » Customize .
From here you can adjust the layout of your site:
the width of the content container
header width
site title/logo alignment
Navigation settings (more information below)
You can also change the layout of the sidebar on the main page, blog page, and individual posts:
GeneratePress Review - sidebar options
For the footer, you can choose between 0 and 5 widget areas. Each has a separate widget area that you can add widgets to from Appearance » Widgets .
Flexible colors and typography
From the Appearance » Customize menu , you can adjust your site's background, text, and link colors using a color picker.
GeneratePress Review - color options
You can choose any Google Font to use throughout your site.
GeneratePress Review - font options
Advanced navigation options
GeneratePress allows you to customize many options in your main navigation menu to give your site a more unique look.
Under Appearance » Customize » Layout » Main Navigation, you can adjust the width, alignment, and other options of your menu.
GeneratePress Review - navigation options
You can also configure the appearance of your navigation:
below or above the site header
to the left or right of the header, opposite the site title
at the top of the left or right sidebar
…or you can disable/hide it completely.
You can also add a search icon to the navigation bar, after all the menu items.
There is also an option to activate dropdown menu items on hover or click.